Definition for Knavery:

• Knaveryly.

Synonyms for Knavery:

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • dishonesty,
  • knavery.
  •deceitfulness (noun)
  • duplicity,
  • wile.
  •evil (noun)
  • diabolism,
  • obscenity,
  • viciousness,
  • outrage,
  • Peccancy,
  • criminality,
  • curse,
  • heinousness,
  • devilry,
  • blow,
  • infamy,
  • wrongdoing,
  • harm,
  • looseness,
  • Knaveries,
  • Diablerie,
  • misfortune,
  • licentiousness,
  • sin,
  • crime,
  • meanness,
  • hurt,
  • suffering,
  • corruption,
  • depravity,
  • hatred,
  • misery,
  • iniquity,
  • indecency,
  • impiety,
  • calamity,
  • woe,
  • criminalities,
  • wrong,
  • mischief,
  • ill,
  • catastrophe,
  • malevolence,
  • turpitude,
  • ruin,
  • injury,
  • pain,
  • affliction,
  • debauchery,
  • lewdness,
  • sinfulness,
  • perversity,
  • baseness,
  • malignity,
  • vileness,
  • vice,
  • sorrow,
  • wickedness,
  • diabolisms.
  •hanky-panky (noun)
  • fling,
  • flirtation,
  • romance,
  • deception,
  • double-dealing,
  • dalliance,
  • monkey business,
  • machinations,
  • chicanery,
  • trickery,
  • subterfuge,
  • shenanigans,
  • liaison,
  • fraud,
  • dirty pool,
  • amour,
  • love affair.
  •swindle (noun)
  • fake,
  • shell game,
  • rip-off,
  • extortion,
  • shakedown,
  • hustle,
  • hoax,
  • sham,
  • sting,
  • cheat,
  • imposition,
  • sell,
  • blackmail.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • deceptive,
  • fraudulence,
  • degradation,
  • dawdle,
  • pollution,
  • foul play,
  • artful,
  • fraudulent,
  • sleight,
  • lurk,
  • dissimulation,
  • dishonest,
  • little game,
  • capriccio,
  • Barratry,
  • KNavishness,
  • abomination,
  • playful,
  • impishness,
  • strategy,
  • Reprobacy,
  • jobbery,
  • feint,
  • shrewdness,
  • skulk,
  • bribery,
  • concealment,
  • con,
  • rascality,
  • brutality,
  • insidious,
  • sly,
  • grift,
  • naughty,
  • craftiness,
  • jiggery-pokery,
  • disgrace,
  • guile,
  • above,
  • betrayal,
  • gyp,
  • plot,
  • deviltry,
  • bad,
  • falsification,
  • fetch,
  • linger,
  • shift,
  • gimmick,
  • endanger,
  • roguery,
  • waggery,
  • faithless,
  • loll,
  • disingenuous,
  • trick,
  • swizzle,
  • expose,
  • device,
  • scandal,
  • jest,
  • mischievousness,
  • dido,
  • conspiracy,
  • backsliding,
  • imposture,
  • hardness of heart,
  • falsehood,
  • impropriety,
  • confidence game,
  • graft,
  • cannibalism,
  • obliquity,
  • skulduggery,
  • expedient,
  • swizz,
  • indecorum,
  • profligacy,
  • impish,
  • insincere,
  • empiric,
  • crafty,
  • bunco,
  • underhandedness,
  • quackery,
  • debasement,
  • conceal,
  • stratagem,
  • Fraudulency,
  • hypocrisy,
  • deceit,
  • venality,
  • move,
  • evasiveness,
  • unfairness,
  • cheating,
  • roguishness,
  • shame,
  • atrocity,
  • immorality,
  • Swindling,
  • fiddle,
  • caper,
  • slyness,
  • gambit,
  • racket,
  • Flagrancy,
  • job,
  • mischievous,
  • maneuver,
  • perfidiousness,
  • roguish,
  • error,
  • Thimblerigging,
  • red herring,
  • Pravity,
  • unreliable,
  • crookedness,
  • laxity,
  • deceitful,
  • artfulness,
  • pettifogging,
  • sophistry,
  • tactic,
  • Improbity,
  • flattery,
  • paltry,
  • demoralization,
  • misrepresentation,
  • Scoundrelism,
  • Jobbing,
  • delusive,
  • Dodgery,
  • dodge,
  • crooked,
  • archness,
  • monkeyshine,
  • shuffle,
  • game,
  • prank,
  • supercherie,
  • artful dodge,
  • perfidy,
  • contrivance,
  • nepotism,
  • design,
  • ploy,
  • confidence trick,
  • hover,
  • craft,
  • waylay,
  • intrigue,
  • cozenage,
  • mouth honor,
  • false,
  • waggishness,
  • cunning,
  • moral turpitude,
  • rascalry,
  • Covin,
  • charlatanism,
  • doubling,
  • Defrauding,
  • naughtiness,
  • scam,
  • devilishness,
  • scheme,
  • shiftiness,
  • rip off,
  • shavie,
  • shenanigan,
  • blind,
  • art,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • ruse,
  • empirical,
  • lesbianism,
  • artifice,
  • treachery,
  • villainousness,
  • jugglery,
  • tergiversation,
  • coup.

Antonyms for Knavery:

• n.

  • evil
    cleanness, pleasure, cheer, comfort, advantage, decency, good, boon, health, joy, aid, kindness, help, good luck, good fortune, profit, benevolence, benefit, innocence, relief, nobility, uprightness, modesty, propriety, fortune, goodness, happiness, purity, virtue, morality, blessing.
  • hanky-panky
    faithfulness, honesty.
  • swindle
    frankness, truthfulness, forthrightness, reality, truth, donation, openness, gift.

Knavery Sentence Examples:

• The universal sympathy with this hero may be encouraged and enjoyed without misgiving, because Bre'r Rabbit succeeds by subtlety, where Reynard succeeds by knavery.

• But whose heart was to bleed at the thought that Charles Duncombe, who was born to carry parcels and to sweep down a counting - house, was to be punished for his knavery by having his income reduced to eight thousand a year, more than most earls then possessed?

Hypernym for Knavery:

• n.

  • act
    falsehood, charlatanism, falsification, betrayal, perfidy, quackery, treason, trick, treachery.

Hyponym for Knavery:

• n.

  • act
    wrongdoing, misconduct, actus reus, wrongful conduct.